Si un día se enteran de la noticia de que fui brutalmente destrozado por un jaguar, sepan que mis últimas palabras fueron "pspspspsps gatito qué cosa tan linda"
Crazy how mfs don’t even know this part of the fight was an anime-only addition 😭
Miguel canonically goes blow for blow with a pissed-off Gojo in the manga and leaves the fight with no lasting damage whatsoever💀
#jjk A lot of people have turned this line into a meme. Many people hear “Itadori Yuji doesn’t matter” and think, “What does Yuji mean by that? Does nothing affect him? Does he simply not care anymore?”
But there’s actually a much deeper meaning behind this line. In a way, it perfectly represents Yuji’s entire character.
If you look back at Season 1, Yuji formed some of his closest bonds with Gojo, Megumi, Nobara, and the people around him. But as the story progressed, Yuji slowly started losing all of them. And in the manga, we already know just how much Yuji has lost.
And among all those people, Gojo was someone especially important to Yuji. Gojo was probably the best teacher Yuji could have ever had, and Yuji was arguably the kind of student Gojo could understand better than anyone else.
In many ways, the two of them understood each other better than most people ever could. They both carried an enormous burden, and they both knew what it felt like to be treated as something more than just a human being.
Even when Gojo was about to die, during his final conversation with Yuji, Gojo questioned why everyone kept talking about him and why they continued relying on Gojo Satoru so much.
Because, in the end, Gojo was always treated like a weapon. People saw him as a weapon that existed to fight and protect everyone else, rather than as an actual human being.
And Gojo never wanted Yuji to become the same kind of person.
He wanted Yuji to live his own life. Gojo understood that Yuji would eventually become incredibly strong, and that the world would probably start looking at Yuji in the same way it looked at Gojo, as someone they could depend on, as a weapon.
But Gojo wanted Yuji to understand something.
The world may see you as a weapon, but you should still live the life you want to live.
Gojo himself wanted a world where everyone could stand on their own instead of constantly depending on him. After Gojo’s death, there was no longer someone like him who could simply come in and save everyone.
That is exactly what Gojo wanted for Yuji as well. He wanted Yuji to show people that they don’t always have to depend on a single person to save them.
And this is where the meaning behind “Itadori Yuji doesn’t matter” becomes much deeper.
By the time Yuji reaches old age in Modulo, at around 83 years old, his entire life has already passed. According to the way Yuji views his own life, he was someone who should have died a long time ago.
So at that point, Yuji Itadori himself no longer matters to him.
What matters is that other people continue living.
He still saves people. He still protects them. But he doesn’t want them to depend on him forever.
Yuji has reached a point where he no longer cares about his own importance. He cares about making sure that people can live without needing Yuji Itadori to save them.
And that is what makes the line “Itadori Yuji doesn’t matter” so tragic, and at the same time, so representative of Yuji’s character.